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Originally Posted by HarryT
Unfortunately, that's highly unlikely to occur. Textbooks are expensive because they are extremely costly to produce (compared to fiction), and have a very restricted market. The printing and distribution costs are negligible compared to that. Electronic distribution might reduce the price of a $100 textbook to $90, but you're never going to see $10 textbooks in fields like medicine.
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Then there will be (nearly) zero incentive to buy, since one can often sell or trade-in used textbooks for credit or OTOH buy used textbooks.